{"id":5749,"date":"2013-04-10T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5749"},"modified":"2013-04-10T05:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T10:00:32","slug":"i-have-belonged-to-my-shooting-club-for-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5749","title":{"rendered":"I have belonged to my shooting club for&#8230; five years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And of course haven&#8217;t met all the members, but I ran into one last night I took my apprenticeship with&#8230; thirty years ago.  I hadn&#8217;t seen him, really, in all that time. <\/p>\n<p>he was hale and hearty, and had retired and come back,  a couple times. It was good to see he&#8217;d survived. <\/p>\n<p>He had news of old friends who didn&#8217;t. Guys who lived hard and didn&#8217;t last. We talked about family members and how time changes us.<\/p>\n<p>When we meet old friends<br \/>\nit&#8217;s like a time capsule<br \/>\na box to be opened<br \/>\nwill it be full of pain<br \/>\nor will it bring back joy?<\/p>\n<p>A rubber band<br \/>\naround a stack of trading cards<br \/>\na roll of caps and a cap gun<br \/>\ntrigger so coarsely made it hurts your finger to pull<br \/>\nbut you do anyway<\/p>\n<p>a sucrets box with pretty stones<br \/>\ngleaned from a hundred beaches<br \/>\na piece of cotton padding<br \/>\na tiny, spiral shell.<\/p>\n<p>The memories those meetings dredge up<br \/>\nare beyond our control<br \/>\nno knowing if the remembrance<br \/>\nwill make us smile or cry<\/p>\n<p>I jam my hands into the debris<br \/>\nand try to sieve the pain through my fingers<br \/>\nand filter out only the good moments<br \/>\nSometimes I succeed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And of course haven&#8217;t met all the members, but I ran into one last night I took my apprenticeship with&#8230; thirty years ago. I hadn&#8217;t seen him, really, in all that time. he was hale and hearty, and had retired and come back, a couple times. It was good to see he&#8217;d survived. He had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}